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Auguri, amore!

Posted byManja MaksimovičPosted inBirthdays, Italy, Slovenia, TuneTags:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Like every year you get a grand holiday for your birthday and a tour of our past year in pictures, with best wishes for good health, good mood and good life.

Yesterday Twitter reminded me of my another birthday. You two are the same age, one day apart.
But I prefer it when it’s you singing. Cin cin!

This year started off slowly and privately, even more than usual. By April we started to wake up from the pandemic sleep and in May we went on a trip for my birthday and to the theatre.

You rightly predicted that all the other nations need not even show up for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because we had the winner already and it was Italy. This is exactly what happened: after winning San Remo festival, the rocking Måneskin conquered Europe with Zitti e buoni (“Quiet and good”), and now America and the world with their version of Beggin’.

You became their biggest fan I know and listened to them almost daily. But since I featured them on my blog already, here is another of your favourite songs from this year to take us through the photo gallery: your favourite crazy guy Caparezza with the help of Mishel Domenssain from Mexico.

Walk, my warrior, on your singular path of pain and joy. Thank you for sharing it with me.

  • Walk and eat. Your version of filled peppers. Basically you stuff them with hamburgers.
  • Walk and then rest with your friend.
  • And sometimes walk your other pack member. This was in April. The supermarket was closed for the holiday and we had to stroll by the lagoon. Such a hard life. A poem about it got me featured the next day on NaPoWriMo.
  • Then we went on a trip. In Pitigliano we found a new viewpoint.
  • The day was wet but it was my birthday. We had lunch in Pitigliano and continued to Sorano.
  • Double contemplation in Sorano.
  • My first cappuccino after half a year.
  • We somehow even managed to go to the theatre in Grosseto.
  • And then, when we were finally reunited with my parents in Slovenia, we watched our small nation win its many medals – 5 – at the Olympic Games (but the basketball team ended up 4th).
  • We drove to Orle above Ljubljana with my friends where the last battle for the liberation of the city was fought in 1945.
  • Then it was Radler and gelato time in Piran.
  • We had a lovely sea food dinner in “Pirat”. Bestia approves.
  • Ahh, I miss this sight. The home of my parents in Piran.
  • Then Crystal and Pedro came from Oregon and after a few days in Tuscany I drove us to Slovenia. Crystal took this photo to show how it went on in the back.
  • When we reached Piran, we raided that same “Pirat” first thing with my parents. Photo: father.
  • The next day we wandered around Piran. Crystal took this one, with thanks, and the next two as well.
  • Street art at the end of the peninsula.
  • Radler time again.
  • Piran is pretty.
  • We climbed the walls for more view. That is, us three without you.
  • When we drove across the Vršič Pass in the Julian Alps, you were hard to impress. You did the same road one year earlier.
  • This was a nice meal at Tonka’s Hut.
  • Kranjska Gora in early September. Right now it’s full of snow.
  • The next day we drove to Lake Bohinj to pick up Crystal and Pedro after the whole day of hiking the Alps.
  • They spent the loveliest day. You are happiest to be able to remain in the valley below.
  • And this is now after you gave me an early Christmas present: a fish-eye lens for my old new Crystal’s camera!
  • A recent sunset. Easy with this excellent camera.

Happy birthday, amore! I wish you many more sunrises and sunsets, health and joy together, and many happy moments. Some of them are below in the memories from previous years and posts. Cin cin, baci e abbracci!

This day in my blogging history

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Published by Manja Maksimovič

A Slovenian in Italy for love. Blogger, photographer, translator and would-be writer who would be a writer if she wrote. Plus reluctant but emerging poet. Beware.

36 thoughts on “Auguri, amore!”

  15. So many wonderful photos of Marco, but of all of us too. What a good man you have there. Thanks for the memories. I’m glad I clicked this at the bottom of the last post I read. And how funny: they both have roasted stuffed peppers! It’s a favourite dish I’ve made since I was young.

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    1. Haha! Do you make it in this way, just roasted in the oven, or in tomato sauce like Slovenians do? Thanks, Crystal. As you can see, our together times made my year! We certainly made lovely memories. Thank you so much for this. ❤

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